ZGram - 9/14/2004 - "Paul Fromm: Watch for fireworks at today's Zundel hearing"

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September 14, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

I haven't heard anything more about the confrontation between the 
Zundel supporters and the ARA street punks who were probably paid to 
provoke it.  I guess the media didn't get the "violence" footage they 
expected. 

For your information, a write-up of what is on the agenda today at 
the Toronto Zundel hearing:

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Dear Free Speech Supporter:

     Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 14, the review of the CSIS 
certificate declaring German-born pacifist and publisher Ernst Zundel 
a "terrorist" and threat to national security picks up again before 
former CSIS boss Mr. Justice Pierre Blais. You noticed that too? Yes, 
certainly an apparent conflict of interest. The former boss has to 
judge the quality and honesty of the "evidence", much of it secret 
presented by his former employees.

         The first item of business is submissions on our second 
motion to have Judge Blais recuse himself. The first motion argued 
back in November by Doug Christie, Mr. Zundel's counsel, centered on 
Blais's obvious conflict of interest and past. The current motion 
brought by Mr. Zundel's new lawyer Peter Lindsay centers on a host of 
prejudicial rulings and injudicious remarks made by Mr. Justice 
Blais, including telling Mr. Zundel he didn't believe his evidence, 
before his evidence was even completed.

     Yes, the submissions should be heated. The judge will be in a 
testy mood. There should be some high drama.

     Equally tense should be the appearance of criminal lawyer John 
Norris of the lefty law firm of Ruby (that's Clayton Ruby) and 
Edwardh. Norris will be seeking to quash a subpoena finally served 
last week on John Joseph Farrell, a former CSIS operative who was in 
charge of the physical interception and opening of mail to 
dissidents, including Ernst Zundel, in 1995. His story and 
information were told in Andrew Mitrovica's book COVERT ENTRY. 
Farrell revealed that, in May of 1995, his CSIS handler repeatedly 
told him not to touch any package addressed to Ernst Zundel from 
Vancouver. That month,. a parcel postmarked Vancouver arrived at Mr. 
Zundel's and contained a deadly pipe bomb.

     Thus, CSIS, Mr. Zundel's major antagonist in this case, knew the 
bomb was coming and did nothing to protect Mr. Zundel, postal 
employees or Air Canada personnel and passengers. The incident 
suggests a murderous animosity on the part of CSIS toward Mr. Zundel 
and calls into question the reasonableness of their evidence, much of 
it secret.

     Farrell who was mouthy enough as the source of Mitrovica's book 
took great pains to evade service of the subpoena this spring. His 
principal lied for him and then assaulted Peter Lindsay who was 
trying to serve the subpoena, allowing Farrell to run out of the 
school and escape. His employer the Toronto District Catholic School 
Board has co-operated with an August 12 order of Mr. Justice Blais. A 
September 9 letter from Guy Bisson, legal counsel, employee relations 
to the Board advised Peter Lindsay: "Mark Tanel, Principal of our 
Lady of Fatima Catholic School, advises me that he hand-delivered to 
John Joseph Farrell a package containing ... the subpoena and 
attendance cheque for Tuesday, September 14."

     It's interesting that both author Mitrovica who blew the whistle 
on much of CSIS's wrongdoing and his informant Mr. Farrell have 
developed such an attack of shyness. Judge Blais quashed our subpoena 
for Mitrovica in the summer.

     Oh, yes, we may get to learn whether Judge Blais has made up his 
mind yet about the continuing detention in solitary confinement of 
Canada's most famous political prisoner. He reserved his decision on 
August 30.

     Yes, tomorrow should be a day of high tension and drama in the 
Courthouse at 361 University Avenue in Toronto.

 
Paul Fromm
 
Director
 
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION

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